WEBVTT - Mick Shots: The Cuts Are In 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:06.400 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.440 --> 0:00:16.280 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is mick Shot 0:00:16.440 --> 0:00:20.440 screening live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:25.120 Dallas Cowboys app now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves, 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:30.880 and Nicky Spagnola, and it is time for another edition 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:34.000 of mix Shots, and it's a very big edition of 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:37.360 mix Shots. As we come to the end of the 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:41.600 month of August, September is right around the corner, and 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:46.680 the Bewitching hours right around the corner to Samurai edition 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:54.760 Samurai Shots. As we are one hour away from when 0:00:54.880 --> 0:01:00.440 the cuts become official. The deadline is three o'clock Dallas time. 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:04.960 Bill Jones, Everson Walls, Mickey Spagnola. We will not cut 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:07.880 the roster here. We won't be making the cuts, but 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:10.000 we are going to stick around at least Mickey and 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:15.160 Everson are past three o'clock. Over time, Baby, over time. 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:19.640 We will bring you the cuts as they happen at 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:24.160 three o'clock this afternoon. Team is off today and it 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:26.240 would be a great day to get ready for Tampa 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:30.119 Bay out there because it is hot outside. I think 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:38.720 there was I think there was some running going on today. Okay, 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:42.320 so I'm running out there. I'm running. I'm running what 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:45.920 they're running for? Heat, trying to get in shape. Yes, 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:49.400 too late, too late, they're on their own run. Got 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:54.320 two weeks. Yeah, that's a dedicated team, that's right. Yeah, 0:01:54.800 --> 0:02:00.720 that's procrastination. If you had a mandatory by the collective 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:04.560 Bargaining Agreement, a mandatory three days off, how would you 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:09.080 spend it? If it's mandatory, I'd spend it off, no doubt. 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:11.280 And I wouldn't be running. He wouldn't be He wouldn't 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:13.720 be running, he wouldn't be jogging. I wouldn't be jogging. 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:16.919 That's what I do now. I would not do running, 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:20.400 all right. But we've got a lot of reports about 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:24.480 things that are happening behind the scenes as players are 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:29.000 being notified of their fate. But really, what's interesting about this, 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:32.760 and as you all know, the roster manipulation that takes 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:36.960 place at this time Cowboys for injured players that they 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:39.120 want to bring back during the season, they've got to 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:41.880 be on this fifty three man roster, and then moves 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:44.200 will be made to put them on the injured reserve 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:46.160 list that would keep them out for at least three 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:49.120 weeks during the regular season, and so a lot of 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:51.360 these people, a lot of these players who are getting 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:55.560 quote unquote bad news today, they could be resigned tomorrow. 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:59.560 There's a sixteen man practice squad as well, and there's 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:02.000 a lot of these players that are not out of 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:05.480 work after today, right, mickey, exactly, And there could be 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:10.000 like four more out of work by Thursday because COVID 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:12.880 four are not counted on. Are you go on the 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:16.200 fifty three man ross? Who are the prominent names on that? 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:24.440 So you're talking Connor Williams, Demante Kazu CD Like, yeah, 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:29.920 you said prominent players, and now those are very significant stars. 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:36.640 Carlos Watkins four four starters. Yes, a star met the 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:39.240 four starters, right, I was just doing off the top 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:43.840 of my head. So, yeah, those guys don't count by 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:47.000 my count. They have six or seven guys that they 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:52.400 could place on the reserve injured list twenty four hours 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:59.240 after the final cuts, so by three o'clock on Wednesday, Uh, 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:02.800 they can move those guy to injured reserve. So that 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:05.560 would allow them to bring back as many as six 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:09.280 or seven tomorrow three o'clock tomorrow. You gotta be on 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:11.880 it twenty four hours. Would you care to read off 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:15.920 your lists, so I think they're likely candidates that would 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:18.800 move to the injured reserve. As Bill said, you have 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:21.840 to miss at least the first three games of the season. 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:27.080 We can start with Neville Gallimore with the dislocated elbow. 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:32.080 Sean McEwan the tight end. He's your third tight end, 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:38.880 so we'll see what happens after that. Josh Ball, their 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:42.159 fourth round draft choice, had a high ankle sprain. He's 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:45.880 just getting back on the cord, so they could create 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:51.120 a spot there by putting him on returnable IR. Kelvin 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:56.640 Joseph had a groin injury on Sunday. I think he's 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:59.960 a candidate for that. I saw him Elite Turner's name 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:04.440 come up. He had a foot injury that he was nursing. Uh. 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:07.760 And then someone that I'm sure everybody's not thinking about, 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:12.400 Francis Bernard. They really liked the linebacker as he's a 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:15.680 second year guy, a special team's guy. He's been out 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:19.200 with a hamstring, and my understanding is he re injured 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:24.080 in a different spot on that same handstring. Okay, so 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:30.880 he's not ready hamstring. And then uh, Terrell Basham has 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:34.240 not practiced in three weeks. Maybe Bill, I think it 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:38.279 happened early in training camp. I think his was a hamstring, 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:41.839 No it was maybe it was a spring. I forgot which, 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:46.440 but anyway, they spent more money on him in free 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:51.280 agency than in Noah Ken. Maybe. Well there was a 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:54.360 two year deal for a Bash and Niels was basically 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:57.200 a two year deal, but it was really structured as one. 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:01.159 So in other words, they have plans for Bash him, right, yeah, 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:05.320 and so yeah, so you could see those guys make 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:08.680 the initial roster and then twenty four hours later you 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:14.320 you let him get onto injured reserve return and then 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:17.120 you can bring back some guys you had to cut. Now, 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:21.000 the key thing is releasing guys that are vested veterans, 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:24.359 so you gotta have four years in the league because 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:26.720 those guys don't have to go through waivers. So I'm 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:29.200 gonna give you one example. I don't know if it's 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:32.000 going to happen with him or not, but the safety 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:36.039 Darien Thompson, who had been you know, in the game 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:40.360 starting because of the COVID and injury for safety, and 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:43.640 he's a special teams guy. So he's a guy that 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:47.840 you could tell, Okay, we're letting you go and you're 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:50.880 on a one year deal unless somebody comes to you 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:54.280 and gives you a sweetheart deal. We want you back, 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:58.440 so check with us before you go, because he doesn't 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:00.360 have to go through waivers, and we want you back 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:03.960 for probably the same contract. Okay, and he's going to 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:07.000 play not practice field. No, no, not practice squid. Yeah, 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:11.920 we'll put you on the fifty three. And so if 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:17.480 you remember that they did that with Kellen Moore twenty seventeen, 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:22.040 maybe it was they they they released in sixty sixteen, 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:25.040 So twenty seventeen, they released him and then told him 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:28.120 you're you're the backup guy. We're bringing you back, and 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:30.200 they made him the offensive coordinate and then they made 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:34.400 up the offensive coordinator for his loyalty, right, and so 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:37.120 he didn't go anywhere. And so if you know, so 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:41.720 if you know you've got one year guys, uh, and see, 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:43.120 you don't want to do it with a guy that 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:45.960 has two years because if he has any signing bonus, 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:49.000 as soon as you release him, the second year comes 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:52.520 goes due into this year's cap. So one year guys. 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:54.880 So if you see some one year guys, and I 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:57.240 you know, I saw some guys that were vested that 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:01.320 they could go through this. Uh mentioned Darien Thompson. It 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:05.080 could happen with Maurice Kennedy he was on his last year. 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:08.520 Malik Cooker, you could I know, they want him on 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:11.720 the team. Uh, and he's only on a one year deal. 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:15.080 And then the tight end Jeremy Sprinkle. Uh, he's a 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:18.040 vested veteran and he's on a one year deal. So 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:21.480 you could say, okay, when we put mckeenan on, you 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:24.400 come back. Now, somebody could come to these guys and 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:27.560 give them a better deal, and you go, okay, you 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:29.760 know we took the shot, but we were trying to 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:33.679 save a roster spot. So uh, those guys, I was 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:36.440 just looking at him. Know what about Eugene that tight end? 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:43.040 Is he still he has to go through waivers? Okay, 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:47.559 so he's getting released, Okay, I think Uh had a 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:49.520 couple of plays in the game, that's all. I was just, Yeah, 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:52.200 it just didn't number forty seven they thought about him. Yeah, 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:55.559 so the the and then you got two guys that 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:59.920 will end up staying on PUP, which would be trist 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:04.000 And Hill and Chauncey Gholston. So that means they cannot 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:07.520 play or practice for the first six weeks. And they 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:10.480 thought they were that far behind. So you can do 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:14.959 all that kind of uh stuff, and you know the 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:18.520 guys that they supposedly are, you know, being reported that 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:22.000 they've released already. H and we can go over and 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:25.720 after do the whole thing. Benda, Nuccie Garrett, Gilbert, Jaquan Hardy, 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:30.960 Brendan Knox, Brendan Smith, Johnny Dixon, uh oh, Sirius Mitchell, 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:37.319 Eric Smith, Braylon Jones, Rondelle Carter Austin, follow Thompson, and 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:40.280 Tyler Coyle. So those were the names that have come out. 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:44.240 So Parker on that I and Stephen Parker sorry, and 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:47.000 Deonte Burton by the way, Yeah, that's the one I 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:50.120 figured that, so you you Banks is actually not on 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:55.120 there yet. We'll see what happens there. Neither as Nick Ralston, 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:58.439 who you know if they and they they've only got 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:03.480 two probably so he could be considered the third Slash 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:07.960 Bestial Teams player, the full Ralston, the fullback from one 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:10.120 of those guys. They could bring him back on the 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:12.920 practice or Hardy on the back party. Yeah, yeah, which 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:16.719 one you like, Bess? I like Hardy? Yeah, I think 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:21.319 I like Hardy. He had pretty good games. Yes, it did. 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:23.920 Now it's a matter of who can do some special 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:27.319 team stuff. Uh and so so yeah, there's a lot 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:30.319 to consider. And then in twenty four hours you have 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:33.640 the ability to put sixteen guys on your practice squad. 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:37.520 And remember there's I think there might be a four 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:40.079 man limit on veterans that you can put on that 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:43.199 practice squad. Now it doesn't matter how many years. So 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:45.679 like Darren Thompson could come back and they put him 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:48.719 on the practice squad if they want they want to 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:52.640 continue the backup quarterback competition. Garrett Gilbert could come back 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:55.320 and be placed on the practice where he was when 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:59.800 they found him last year and practice where he's been previously. Right, 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:03.240 And then if you really like them, you could protect 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:05.920 the guys like they did last year with Cooper Rush. 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:08.920 I think he got protected like four or five times. 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:13.600 Quarterbacks have is so nice. Man, You could protected Bok 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:16.960 and you could have protected you could have protected cornerback. 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:20.120 You can, but you don't. It's just the way I 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:22.160 will know, because it is going to be if the 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:24.960 couarterback is good. If the quarterback's good, he's on your 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:27.840 roster exactly. You're not gonna cut him and then playing 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:31.240 games with that one other guy for and Chris Beam 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:34.760 pointed it out to me that we have not mentioned 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:37.840 for you Texas tech fans out there, t J Vasher, 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:40.400 who has not worked out. He's been on NFI's right, 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:43.719 so he will start the season on NFI exactly in 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:47.360 the likelihood. So so yeah, so there's still a lot 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:51.800 of things going to happen in the next twenty four hours. Basically, yep, 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:55.240 all right, so the quarterback you want to start with 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:58.840 the back quarterback, we should start there. Okay. So reports 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:02.559 are that Gilbert and Dnucci will be let go and 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:05.839 is basically confirmed by Jerry Jones this morning on his 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:11.280 radio show. Yes, that Cooper Rush is well I'm not 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:14.680 quoting Jerry here, but I will say, for now, Cooper 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:17.599 Rush is the backup quarterback. And he said because he 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:21.800 has shown he can run the complete offense, all the 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:27.200 things that make for a real comfortable situation here. So boy, 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:30.040 that was kind of comfortable. Comfortable. Yeah, Yes, I don't 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:35.160 know about that, because well, I think I think what 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:37.520 he was trying to point out is he's been here, 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:40.880 he knows the offense. He's been you know, I think 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:43.520 everybody forgets for two and a half years. He was 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:46.520 the backup quarterback since his rookie year and he took 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:49.400 over for Kellen Moore and then the next two before 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:51.280 they let him go last year and then brought him 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:53.640 back on the practice squad. Let's call it lesser of 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:57.800 the evils? Can we do that instead of comfortable? And 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:00.920 the other thing to consider on it, I mean, obviously, 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:05.240 and unless you have some I'm trying to think of 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:07.720 any quarterback out there that might be with another team 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:12.160 who's has experience in this system. Yeah, you know. The 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:16.600 other thing is Cooper Rush has been here starting last year. 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.360 I mean he was here before that obviously, dacks back 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:23.080 up prior to McCarthy becoming the head coach and Kellen 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:28.520 Moore Collin Blaze last year, and he comes back last 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:30.720 year after the Cowboys let him go when they signed 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:35.280 Andy Dalton. And when you look at other quarterbacks out there, 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:37.280 even if there's one that you like out there that 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:39.719 you want to sign, is he ready to step in 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:42.400 if needed at Tampa Bay next week? You got to 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:45.280 have someone who's been in the system throughout this offseason 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:48.839 and preseason because otherwise you're starting from scratch, right, And 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:50.600 I don't want to hear this stuff when they bring 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:53.240 in a quarterback and it's like, well, he wasn't here, 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:55.680 you know, when they brought in the New England guy 0:13:56.200 --> 0:14:01.680 that year when Romo got hurt by twenty fifteen Bill 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:07.200 twenty fifteen, they brought in the veteran guy, his Castle, 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:10.120 Matt cass Castle, and he got here and he stunk, 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:13.160 yes did he was done? Yeah. But they kept saying, well, 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:15.400 he's new to the system. I was like, I don't 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:18.480 that that's a euphemism for it. He doesn't. He's not playing. 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:20.680 But what I'm saying, if there's someone they like out there, 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.080 it might take him a month to get acclimated or 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:25.720 to learn the system of system and the plays and 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:28.120 so forth. Him on the practice so or you could now, 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:29.440 I mean, if you have room on the fifth, if 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:31.280 you really like him, you need to put him on 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:33.840 the fifty three. Then there's a spot there and Cooper 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:36.600 can be the backup for now. And then as you 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:39.680 groom this guy, whoever it is that you like, you 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:42.480 bring back both book. You could bring back both guys 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:46.000 on the practice squad, Gilbert and Denucci, you know, and 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:49.960 again you know, yeah, I'm not feeling that. Look the 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:54.840 second half. Feeling a second half. He showed that all 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:57.360 the quarterbacks you can bring you could work with him 0:14:57.440 --> 0:15:00.920 at Castle included uh and you know, I know he 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:04.360 when he gets into games. There were times he didn't 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:06.120 look good, but there were other times he threw some 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:10.120 nice passes. So you got sixteen guys in the practice squad, 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:13.440 so it doesn't hurt to have two quarterbacks there. They 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:17.040 probably should put a punter or kicker on. Definitely. I 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:19.760 think every team in the league needs to have someone 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:23.280 who can kick or punt or preferably both on the 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:26.680 practice squad because of the COVID situation. Remind me, did 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:30.800 somebody pick up nice wander he got placed on injured reserve? 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:36.480 Didn't he? Yea by though the Cowboys did right? Oh 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:42.000 about yeah he's done right yeah? Um, you got too 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:44.680 many guys that you're keeping up with. Well there's ninety. 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:49.000 I gotta say we we saw a defensive bag that 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:52.720 made the best kickoff I've ever seen by someone that 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:56.160 wasn't a kicker. Did you see that in the Texans game, Jeff, 0:15:57.200 --> 0:16:00.720 that wasn't He was a little dark than he was, 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:04.360 I believe Texans, but Houston Texans this week, I have 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:07.840 a defensive back that can boot it. I think he 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:10.400 was number twenty for the Texans. I mean he I 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:12.240 think it was almost all the way to the gold line. 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:14.480 So it wasn't like it's something that he was just 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:17.640 trying out. You can tell that this guy has had 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:20.040 some type of kicking in his background. I knew I 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:24.160 shouldn't have thrown that. I'm just looking last week's Texans. 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:29.400 I believe John Reid was number twenty for them and 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:32.880 they let him. They traded him away I think recently. Yeah, 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:35.200 obviously recently. I gotta look it up. Yeah, I gotta 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:37.320 look it up now. Now it's he was like like 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:40.040 in the last few days. But you're right, quarterbacks just 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:46.160 it was justin readers but just as important. Yeah, absolutely, 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:49.280 and punters just as important. This field goal kid, so 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:52.680 luck goes into this thing. Yeah, Justin Reider's number twenty. 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:55.600 John Reid was number thirty four. I think they traded 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:57.960 a Seattle or someplace. But yeah, I'm watching it right now. 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:02.200 He booted at Justin Reid. Um, there's a pretty good 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:06.520 player too. He did was on hord Knocks Highlights on 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:09.879 Hord Knocks for Houston. Yeah, I think he was a 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:12.240 highlight on Hard Knight. They showed his family, great family. 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:14.760 For some reason, I can think it's some Stanford he's 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:17.520 Stanford y. Yeah, that was a great believe it's Eric 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:21.080 Reid's brother. I think so. So if you've seen a 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:24.920 quarterback out there that you say bring him in, well, 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:27.399 there's one as a developmental guy that I really like, 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:31.720 and that's Shane Bouchell. And he played well for Kansas City. Released. 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:35.639 I have heard reports that it looks like he might 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:38.359 be released, but I'm sure that they have plans to 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:40.600 try to sign him to their practice squad and probably 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:44.160 told him that. So anyway, of course, Shane Bouchell from here, 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:48.120 Arlington Lamar High School. Uh, that started his college career 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:51.680 at Texas and then at SMU and UM, I don't know. 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:54.040 I thought he looked good the other day for Kansas City. 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:57.639 So's there? Who's there? Chat? Hanny is a veteran, Chat 0:17:57.760 --> 0:18:02.359 Hanny is there? So but I haven't seen anything. You know. 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:05.680 Somebody brought up to me on Twitter, Josh Rosen, and 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:08.480 I said, oh, the guy that's on his fifteen fifteam 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:13.119 in four years. Everybody can't be wrong about him. Right 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:16.000 first round drafting, I know. I mean, he was the 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:19.120 man coming out. They talked about his intellect, they talked 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:22.399 about his leadership, you know, his confidence that he has 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:25.680 in himself, and that just didn't do anything for him. 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:32.479 He can't stick the other guy. I noticed Carolina released 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:36.880 Will Grier. He was a third round pick two years ago. 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:41.199 I believe it was out of where West Virginia, Virginia. 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:45.760 That's right, Yes, about how Yer, he's still brings us 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:50.080 to once again, Mickey buries the lead here. What did 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:55.040 the Patriots do today? They cut Cam Newton? Shocking? Shocking? 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:58.000 Was it shocking? No? I don't think it to me 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:01.560 if you've been watching what's going on there. The only 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:03.280 good thing I can say about that is Cam actually 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:05.960 had a decent preseason. I mean when I say decent, 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:09.240 but Matt McDonald's his was even better. He got beat 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:13.119 out and they fairly, and they didn't keep him as 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:17.359 the backup. By the way, well, if you looked at 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:22.040 their depth chart with not only mac Jones, Cam Newton, 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:26.480 and then with Brian Howyer the veteran and Jared Stidham, 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:29.840 it was obvious that if Cam was not the starter, 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:32.639 Howyer is going to be the backup or Stidham. But 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:35.679 Howyer is your veteran backup guy. They bought like've always 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:40.240 liked him and his and his base salary wasn't unreasonable. 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:42.880 It was three and a half million. You would pay 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:46.280 that for a veteran backup quarterback. But the key thing 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:51.399 was he had fourteen million dollars in incentives that he 0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:56.320 could earn for various reasons. And I think they probably 0:19:56.359 --> 0:19:59.080 saw that and go okay, now, that would be a 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:01.760 little pricey. Even if he helped us win a few 0:20:01.840 --> 0:20:06.320 games that young quarter kind, I still don't think they 0:20:06.359 --> 0:20:10.320 have enough offensive talent to help him as a young 0:20:11.280 --> 0:20:17.520 rookie quarterback. The defense is stacked again. Players back hopped 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:19.280 it out from last year. They back a couple of 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:21.440 my part, they reacquired them. They were playing for the 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:23.639 Dolphins last year and now they're back with the Bakers. 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:26.520 All they did leave Gilmore on pup right he's on 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:30.080 pup to start six. I think the other reason is 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:33.480 you don't want that guy in your locker room. He 0:20:33.680 --> 0:20:36.359 wants to be a starter right now he's not. He 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:39.040 may not be as good a teammate as we've seen 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:42.560 him running down the field. Patton Jones up over the 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:45.879 top o the right. And the other thing is is 0:20:46.600 --> 0:20:52.159 I read uh some comments from the cap It was 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:55.399 the running back White. Is that James James White, And 0:20:55.560 --> 0:20:59.240 he was talking about how he said that mac Jones 0:20:59.320 --> 0:21:02.000 got better, better and better, and when he got into 0:21:02.080 --> 0:21:06.600 the into the huddle, he convinced the other guys in 0:21:06.760 --> 0:21:10.040 that huddle that he was the guy. And so when 0:21:10.080 --> 0:21:12.600 I started reading that and the captain said that, you know, 0:21:12.800 --> 0:21:15.600 it's like you wouldn't have said it if you didn't 0:21:15.640 --> 0:21:19.480 believe it, right, rum, if it was Hoga Boom or 0:21:19.800 --> 0:21:23.440 Danny White, Right, I said what I said. I'm on 0:21:23.560 --> 0:21:27.360 the record that remind us I was the leader. Yes, 0:21:27.560 --> 0:21:31.679 I was the leader of the quarterback controversy. What nineteen 0:21:31.800 --> 0:21:33.960 eighty four. I just thought Hoga Boom was a better 0:21:34.119 --> 0:21:36.880 player than Danny White. I thought he inspired us more. 0:21:37.280 --> 0:21:40.320 And that simply came from the fact that Danny was 0:21:40.400 --> 0:21:42.800 having some issues. I believe that was in nineteen eighty 0:21:42.880 --> 0:21:46.760 three when he had the issues and he just couldn't 0:21:47.240 --> 0:21:49.119 he couldn't get us over the hump. You know, you 0:21:49.160 --> 0:21:51.040 could blame a lot of people for us not getting 0:21:51.040 --> 0:21:53.720 over the hump. There's no doubt, including myself, in regards 0:21:53.800 --> 0:21:57.200 to getting through that championship games. But man, when you 0:21:57.280 --> 0:21:59.400 look at the way Hoga Boom came into that Washington 0:21:59.520 --> 0:22:01.600 Bad Skin game, and that's what they were at that time. 0:22:02.320 --> 0:22:05.440 I mean, you couldn't help but be inspired and be 0:22:05.680 --> 0:22:08.560 uninspired by by Danny White's performance at that and then 0:22:08.640 --> 0:22:11.760 by halfway through the season he proved that he wasn't 0:22:11.760 --> 0:22:14.920 a starting he was the backup that he should have been. Yeah, yeah, 0:22:15.440 --> 0:22:18.400 which happens with a lot of backup quarterbacks, right, as 0:22:18.480 --> 0:22:20.440 long as they don't have to play, they are really 0:22:20.520 --> 0:22:24.280 good backups. To review nineteen eighty four, when it was 0:22:24.400 --> 0:22:28.640 probably what would it be now thirty seven years ago, 0:22:28.840 --> 0:22:32.400 maybe even thirty seven years ago today, Tom Landry made 0:22:32.440 --> 0:22:35.960 the announcement that pos Derek would start at quarterback. So 0:22:36.400 --> 0:22:39.000 you want to hear remember that, you want to hear 0:22:39.240 --> 0:22:42.480 he hated this moment. The thing before he says the 0:22:42.640 --> 0:22:45.399 thing about this with Tom Landry, he you know, he 0:22:45.520 --> 0:22:48.800 hated giving up the power, so to speak, The fact 0:22:48.840 --> 0:22:52.200 that we made this decision for him. That flies in 0:22:52.280 --> 0:22:54.280 the face of any head coach, especially when with the 0:22:54.359 --> 0:22:57.360 kind of pride that Tom Landry had. And I think 0:22:57.600 --> 0:22:59.120 and that's just the way there is, and I'm telling 0:22:59.160 --> 0:23:01.600 you this way. Coaches are all over the world. I 0:23:01.680 --> 0:23:04.640 don't care if it's soccer or whatever. They're not going 0:23:04.760 --> 0:23:09.399 to help the quarterback that he didn't choose. Right, And 0:23:09.520 --> 0:23:12.719 as far as I'm concerned, coaches, I don't say throw games. 0:23:13.080 --> 0:23:16.040 They don't throw games, but they're not gonna lift too 0:23:16.119 --> 0:23:18.960 many fingers if this is your guy. And I'm trying 0:23:19.000 --> 0:23:21.640 to prove to you that my team doesn't run this team. 0:23:22.280 --> 0:23:24.280 My players don't run this team. I run this team. 0:23:24.440 --> 0:23:26.600 So you want hugga boom, go ahead, I'm throwing them 0:23:26.600 --> 0:23:29.280 to the wolves. So that's what he did to the Wolves. 0:23:29.720 --> 0:23:32.639 It was positive and there was a I guess there 0:23:32.720 --> 0:23:34.680 was a position battle of one of the tackle spots. 0:23:34.680 --> 0:23:36.360 I can't remember if it was right tackle or left 0:23:36.400 --> 0:23:39.879 tackle for Positiic right, but uh and so then uh 0:23:41.320 --> 0:23:49.720 not positive Hogan Bloom. So August thirty first, right, Yes, 0:23:50.880 --> 0:23:54.040 So the day they made that announcement was the day 0:23:54.440 --> 0:23:57.359